Name: The Office
Released: 2002-08-07T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Ricky Gervais, Mackenzie Crook, Lucy Davis

TV Show · Comedy

Insufferable middle-management type David Brent is the centre of this mockumentary-style comedy set at a nondescript paper company in a nondescript office park in England. David doesn't realize that his employees - among them the beaten-down salesman Tim, underappreciated receptionist Dawn and truly weird Gareth - put up with his feeble jokes and inappropriate behaviour only because he signs the paychecks.

2002 · 29m

Starring Ricky Gervais, Mackenzie Crook, Lucy Davis

Director Stephen Merchant, Ricky Gervais

EPISODE 1

Downsize

David Brent is informed by Head Office that his Slough branch of Wernham Hogg paper merchants might be closed down.

25 min
EPISODE 2

Work Experience

David hires Donna, his lodger and the daughter of his best friend. While showing her round the office he discovers a doctored pornographic image of himself. Gareth, due to his covert operations skills, is told to catch the culprit.

25 min
EPISODE 3

The Quiz

Ricky confesses that he once appeared on Blockbusters and won two gold runs. David, feeling his tiny mind intellectually threatened, is thus inspired to make frequent expositions on his (non-existent) knowledge of Dostoevsky.

25 min
EPISODE 4

Training

To fend off the increasing staff disillusionment a Training Day has been scheduled. Dawn’s engagement to Lee is on the rocks and Tim begins to think that he may at last have a chance with her.

25 min
EPISODE 5

New Girl

David interviews for a new secretary and choses blonde Karen. His efforts to impress end spectacularly badly when he accidentally headbutts her. Meanwhile Donna’s late arrival at work inevitably sparks the rumour that she is sleeping with a colleague.

25 min
EPISODE 6

Judgement

It is redundancies judgement day and David is told by Head Office that he will be promoted if he sacrifices the branch. True to his innate sense of self-preservation and greed David leaps at the chance for betterment.

24 min